Quotes About Devotion

But what is the use of praying to One whose will is already fixed? We answer, Because He so requires it.

We heartily agree with Charnock: "In that one word love, God hath wrapped up all the devotion He requires of us.

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord

When we fast, how long we fast, the nature of the fast and the spiritual objectives we have before us are all God's choice, to which the obedient disciple gladly responds.

God reminds His people that the acceptable fast is the one which He has chosen. Fasting, like prayer, must be God-initiated and God-ordained if it is to be effective.

Then there will be times when we shall forget the matter of our personal gain, when we shall be caught up in wonder, love and praise, as we fast unto God.

Fasting, then, is a divine corrective to the pride of the human heart. It is a discipline of the body with a tendency to humble the soul. "I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God," records Ezra (8:21; see also Isa. 58:3).

In the fasting for personal sanctity, we must also include the positive aspect of consecration to God.

When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you" (Jer. 29:13–14). When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting." (Joel 2:12)

I proclaimed a fast . . . that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods" (Ezra 8:21, 23, 31).

Dose who love deep never grow old... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.

A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.

Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

Un perro no es más que una lealtad en busca de una causa. Dadle una idea a uno como yo, un amo o un objetivo en la vida, y se aferrará a ello con los colmillos apretados.

Creo en los perros, en el amor, en la lealtad, en el valor y en la muerte.

Bajo un dios injusto y temible, un devoto apacible es alguien que no ha razonado en absoluto...

es posible hablar con extrema dureza de lo que se ama, precisamente porque se ama, y con la autoridad moral que nos confiere ese mismo amor.

Sin lealtá, los hombres semos menos que los puros animales

Mataria por muito poucas coisas, mas mataria quem fizesse mal a um cão. Sem qualquer remorso, com as minhas próprias mãos. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

The moment I see u I am Always thinking of u Every second of my Life I am Just Missing u... Try 2 feel my Love What I had feel for u My Heart is beating always Just 2 say I Love U...

Mosiah 2:22 - "And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments;" - (My thoughts --->) "This one stuck out to me as like a, duh scripture. I just need to keep the commandments of the Lord. That's all. I just need to read my scriptures, ponder and pray. I just need to be an example and follow the Holy Ghost. I just need to be a Daughter of God. He's just asking that much from us.